Christian Lotz Professor of Philosophy
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Christian Lotz CV Professor of Philosophy ADDRESS Department of Philosophy; Michigan State University; South Kedzie Hall; 368 Farm Lane, room 503; East Lansing, MI 48824; 517.355.4490 (dept.); 734.678.1453 (home/cell); [email protected] INTERNET https://christianlotz.com https://philosophy.msu.edu/faculty-staff/christian-lotz/ https://michiganstate.academia.edu/ChristianLotz BIO BLURB Christian Lotz earned an M.A. in philosophy, sociology, and art history from the University of Bamberg, and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Marburg (Germany). He spent two years as a research fellow at Emory University in Atlanta. Before coming to MSU he taught at the University of Marburg, Seattle University, and the University of Kansas. He taught as DAAD visiting professor in Cottbus/Germany in 2011 and 2013. Lotz received MSU’s Teacher-Scholar Award in 2009, and the Fintz Award for Teaching Excellence in the Arts and Humanities in 2014. His main research area is Post-Kantian European philosophy. Among his book publications are The Art of Gerhard Richter. Hermeneutics, Images, Meaning (Bloomsbury Press, 2015; pbk. 2017); The Capitalist Schema. Time, Money, and the Culture of Abstraction (Lexington Books, 2014; pbk. 2016); Christian Lotz zu Marx, Das Maschinenfragment (Laika Verlag, 2014); Ding und Verdinglichung. Technik- und Sozialphilosophie nach Heidegger und der kritischen Theorie (ed., Fink Verlag); From Affectivity to Subjectivity. Revisiting Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology (Palgrave, 2008); Vom Leib zum Selbst. Kritische Analysen zu Husserl und Heidegger (Alber, 2005). His current research interests are in classical German phenomenology, critical theory, Marx, Marxism, Continental aesthetics, and contemporary European political philosophy. EDUCATION Ph.D. in Philosophy, Philipps-University of Marburg (Germany), 2002 Dissertation Umwelthandeln und Selbstbezug. Phänomenologie praktischer Subjektivität (370 pages; distributed to libraries on micro fiche) [Advisors: Prof. | 2 Zimmerli, University of Marburg; Prof. Carr, Emory University; Prof. Aguirre†, University of Wuppertal], 2002 Ph.D. Research Fellow, Emory University, Atlanta, 2000-02 M.A. in Philosophy, sociology, and art history, Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg, 1997 M.A. Thesis Gewissenhabenwollen in Heideggers Sein und Zeit (120 pages) [Advisor: Prof. Zimmerli, University of Bamberg], 1997 Undergraduate Studies in philosophy, sociology, and art history, Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg (1990-91/1993-97); Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen (1992-93); Friedrich- Schiller University of Jena (1991-92) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Freelance journalist, Westfälische Rundschau, editorial office Ennepetal, 1987-1990, around 400 published articles, 1989 and 1990 fixed-term replacements of full-time local journalists RESEARCH AREAS AOS: Post-Kantian Continental Philosophy, Critical Theory, Marxism AOC: Continental Aesthetics, Continental Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Culture ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND APPOINTMENTS Full Professor, tenured, Michigan State University, since 2015 DAAD Visiting Professor, full time (W2), Philosophy of Culture (Kulturphilosophie), Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus, Germany, 2011 and 2013 Associate Professor, tenured, Michigan State University, 2009-15 Assistant Professor, tenure-track, Michigan State University, 2005-09 Assistant Professor, tenure-track, University of Kansas, 2003-05 Adjunct Faculty, fixed-term, Seattle University, 2002-03 Instructor, fixed term, Philipps-University Marburg, 1998-1999 AWARDS, DISTINCTIONS, HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS | 3 Fintz Award for Teaching Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University, 2014 Master Teacher, Center for Applied Inclusive Teaching and Learning in Arts and Humanities, College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University, 2012 Teacher-Scholar Award, Office of the Provost, Michigan State University, 2009 Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society, 2009- Federal Fellowship, German Science Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), fully funded, 1999-2002 State Fellowship for Promising Young Academic Scholars, Hessische Nachwuchswissenschaftlerförderung, fully funded, Land Hessen, 1997-99 Undergraduate Award, Oskar-Karl-Forster Book Stipend; Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg, 1993 GRANTS Humanities and Arts Research Program Grant, Office of the Vice President for Research, Michigan State University, 2018; Humanities and Arts Research Production Grant, Office of the Vice President for Research, Michigan State University, 2014; College of Arts and Letters Research Award, Office of the Dean, Michigan State University, 2010; College of Arts and Letters Experiential Learning Community Grant, Office of the Dean, Michigan State University, 2009; Professorial Assistant, Honors College, Michigan State University, 2008-09; CISAH Travel Grant, Integrative Studies, Michigan State University, 2007; 2008; College of Arts and Letters Undergraduate Research Assistant Grant, Michigan State University, 2007; IRGP Research Grant, Office of the Vice President for Research, Michigan State University, 2007; Honors Research Seminar Grant, Honors College, Michigan State University, 2006-07; 2008-09; International Travel Grant, Michigan State University, 2006, 2011; Faculty Research Grant, Center for Research, University of Kansas, 2005; International Travel Grant, International Office, University of Kansas, 2005; Research Assistant Grant, Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas, 2004; New Faculty Research Grant, University of Kansas, 2004 TEACHING Graduate seminars: Marx, Grundrisse (upcoming 2021); Marxist Philosophies: Hegelian Marxism, Marxist Humanism, Marxist Structuralism (2020); Contemporary European Political Philosophy (2020); Rationality and its Other II/Critical Theory II (2015, co-taught with Todd Hedrick); Rationality and its Other I/Critical Theory I (2014, co-taught with Todd Hedrick); Recent European Political Philosophy (2013); Marx, Das Kapital (2013, Cottbus); Philosophie und Kunst im Werk Gerhard Richters (2013, Cottbus); Marx, Capital (2012); Intentionality and Beyond: From Husserl to Levinas (2012); Recent Anglo-American Philosophy of Technology (Cottbus, 2011); Adorno and Heidegger (2010); The Sublime and | 4 Non-representable (2010); Philosophy of Culture (2009); Heidegger: Being and Time (2008; Cottbus, 2011); Intersubjectivity from Hegel to the Present (2006); Augustine’s Confessions and Contemporary Philosophy (2005); Husserl and Heidegger (2004) Graduate Seminars/Professionalization: Proseminar (upcoming 2021), Teaching Philosophy (2014) Graduate/senior courses [all courses were given at the senior level]: Kierkegaard and Continental Philosophy (upcoming 2022); Adorno’s Social Philosophy and Theory of Society (2020); Arendt and Luxemburg (2019); German Philosophical Anthropology (2019); Sartre (2017); Heidegger, Being and Time (2017); Marcuse (2014); Arendt (2014); Anarchism and Radical Democracy (2013, Cottbus); Community, the Commons, and Political Resistance (2013); State, Democracy, Power: Radical European Political Thought (2012); The Meaning of Photography: Recent Anglo-American Discussions (Cottbus, 2011); Gadamer and Hermeneutics (2010); Philosophy of Poetry (2009); Hermeneutics of Life: The Early Heidegger (2008); Hegel (2006); Foucault (2006); Heidegger and Phenomenology (2005); 19th Century Philosophy (2003, 2005); Contemporary Continental Philosophy (2004) Graduate directed studies: Basic Readings in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art (2021, 4 students); Basic Issues in Marx (2020, 6 students); The Later Heidegger (2013); Marx, Capital (2012); Husserl: Phenomenology of Perception (4 students, 2009); Heidegger and the Early Marcuse (2008); Foucault’s Ethics (2005); Aesthetics in Gadamer’s Truth and Method (2005); Heidegger: Metaphysics and Language (4 students, 2004); Hegel: Encyclopedia Logic (2004); Husserl: Cartesian Meditations (2003) Undergraduate courses: Philosophy of Technology (2021); Aesthetics: Benjamin, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Marcuse (2017); Existentialism (2016, 2017); Introduction to Social-Political Philosophy (2014, 2019); Marx (2014, 2015, 2016, 2019); Aesthetics: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Deleuze (2012); Adorno’s Aesthetics (2010); Aesthetics: Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger (2009); Aesthetics: Kant vs. Hegel (2008); Introduction to Philosophy (Honors, 2004); Ethics (2003); Introduction to Philosophy (2002, 2003, 1010, 2012, 2013); Introduction to Philosophy and Critical Thinking (2002, 2003); Philosophy of the Human Person (2002, 2003); Husserl: Cartesian Meditations (Marburg, 1999); Introduction to Phenomenology (Marburg, 2000) Undergraduate directed studies: The Concept of Democracy (2017); From Husserl to Merleau-Ponty (2012) Undergraduate Honors research seminars: The World Viewed. Representation in Painting and Photography (2008); Power, Discipline, and Institutions (2006) Lecture courses: Is Another World Possible? Global Capitalism and Post-Capitalism (2016, 2020, upcoming 2022); Existential Problems of Human Life/On Being Human (2005, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2017, 2021); Capitalism and Globalization (2013, 2014, 2015); Die Philosophie von Karl Marx (2013, Cottbus); Heidegger (2011, Cottbus); The Culture of Capitalism (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012) SUPERVISION | 5 Ph.D. (chair): Andrea Walsh, In Search of Non-Identity: Adorno’s Critique of Heidegger (2018), Alex Neitzke, Health Care Capital: An Account of Health Care Production as a Critique of Health Care Ethics (co-chair, 2017);